http://www.synaesthesia.net one book at a time... Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:45:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Seven months. That's how long it's taken to get me blogging again, and just like my last entry, it took a death to make something happen. Embarrassing, huh? I hate it when bloggers apologize for not doing their gig, and, while I'm not going to go as far as apologize to my handful ... http://www.synaesthesia.net/in-memoriam-allan-milkerit/ http://www.synaesthesia.net/norman-mailer-dead-at-age-84-rip/ Volta is my homage to Wallace Berman. It's also an assemblage and a little magazine that's published whenever I can make it happen. I named it after James Joyce's one and only (failed) business venture -- The Volta Theater at 45 Mary Street in Dublin. The Volta Theater was opened in ... http://www.synaesthesia.net/volta/ So I'm walking down Mission Street with Jack Micheline. I was the winter of '96, I think. I had just met Jack a few weeks earlier at The Adobe Bookshop, where I had bought some of his paintings. We developed into fast friends, probably cause whatever Jack handed me, ... http://www.synaesthesia.net/johnny-brewton/ the synaesthesia press published an essay on the state of American Poetry according to Mr. Charles Bukowski. It appeared in synaesthesia press chap book #2, 4 Poets. The chap book is long out of print. Bukowski wrote the essay in 1964. It was discovered in an old notebook that's in the ... http://www.synaesthesia.net/charles-bukowski-4-poets/ Johnny Brewton introduced me to Billy Childish. As you may or may not know, Billy Childish is a musician/poet/artist. And, instead of writing something up here on my own, I took this straight from his website; check it out, as you can buy great stuff directly from Billy: "A cult figure in ... http://www.synaesthesia.net/billy-childish/ I was talking to my friend Mark at his bookstore in the Haight, St. Adrian. This was a long time ago. We talked about books. We talked about Kerouac or Bukowski or maybe the great things coming from the X-Ray Press. I don't recall. Then, we talked about Richard Brautigan. I do recall ... http://www.synaesthesia.net/richard-brautigan/ When Johnny Brewton married Giselle Orsolio, I approached Neeli Cherkovski to write a poem for the occasion. I had met Neeli few times earlier at his home in San Francisco, and he was always a gentleman. This made it easy to approach him about the project, and when I called ... http://www.synaesthesia.net/neeli-cherkovski/ A. di Michele's chap book The Mollifier was published November, 1996. When people ask me to describe it, I like to say, "Joycean HyperText." And they usually follow up with an unsure nod, or "what?" And I say, "exactly. Now go read it." di Michele illustrated The Mollifier, too. I found this bio somewhere...I ... http://www.synaesthesia.net/a-di-michele-the-mollifier/ I went to a reading Mr. Ferlinghetti gave at the Caravan of Dreams, in Fort Worth Texas; this was in 1992, I think. Ferlinghetti read for an hour or so, and afterward, he signed books and answered questions. While I was getting a book signed, I asked if ... http://www.synaesthesia.net/lawrence-ferlinghetti-four-poets/